Breadcrumb NavXT, the successor to the popular WordPress plugin Breadcrumb Navigation XT, was written from the ground up to be better than its ancestor. This plugin generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress powered blog or website. These breadcrumb trails are highly customizable to suit the needs of just about any website running WordPress. The Administrative interface makes setting options easy, while a direct class access is available for theme developers and more adventurous users.
PHP Requirements
Breadcrumb NavXT 5.2 and newer require PHP5.3
Breadcrumb NavXT 5.1.1 and older require PHP5.2
Features (non-exhaustive)
- RDFa format Schema.org BreadcrumbList compatible breadcrumb generation.
- Extensive breadcrumb customization control via a settings page with appropriate default values for most use cases.
- Network admin settings page for managing breadcrumb settings for all subsites with configurable global priority.
- Built in WordPress Widget.
- Extensible via OOP and provided actions and filters.
- WPML compatible (enhanced compatibility with WPML extensions plugin).
- Polylang compatible (enhanced compatibility with Polylang extensions plugin).
- bbPress compatible (enhanced compatibility with bbPress extensions plugin).
- BuddyPress compatible (enhanced compatibility with BuddyPress extensions plugin).
Translations
Breadcrumb NavXT now supports
WordPress.org language packs. Want to translate Breadcrumb NavXT? Visit
Breadcrumb NavXT's WordPress.org translation project.
Breadcrumb NavXT can be installed from within WordPress’ administration panel. After installing and activating the plugin, to get breadcrumb trails to display either use the included widget, or call the breadcrumb trail in your theme (or child theme). See the
Calling the Breadcrumb Trail article for more information on calling the breadcrumb trail.
To customize the breadcrumb trail you may edit the default values for the options in the administrative interface. This is located in your administration panel under Settings > Breadcrumb NavXT.
Please visit
Breadcrumb NavXT's Documentation page for more information.
6.6.0
Release date: October, 31st 2020
- Behavior change: Moved to using the post type of the parent post for the type archive rather than that of the current item.
- Bug fix: Fixed error thrown when a site does not have an
administrator
role.
6.5.0
Release date: June, 12th 2020
- Behavior change: Moved to using the taxonomy of the term rather than passed in taxonomy in various functions. As a consequence, this allows
bcn_pick_post_term
to override the taxonomy selection.
- Behavior change: Default template for unlinked breadcrumbs now includes breadcrumbList markup.
- New feature: Added new filter
bcn_breadcrumb_linked
.
- New feature: Introduced new WordPress capability:
bnc_manage_options
.
- Bug fix: Fixed XML settings exporter so that it no longer creates malformed files that cannot be imported when settings contain special HTML entities.
6.4.0
Release date: December, 31st 2019
- Behavior change: Attachment post type settings moved to Media, additional post type options made available.
- Behavior change: Privately published parent posts are now, by default, skipped over in breadcrumb trails.
- Behavior change: On single post breadcrumb trails, the hierarchical term code path is now used in cases where only a single term from a non-hierarchical taxonomy is present for the current post.
- New feature: Allow
%link%
tag in unlinked breadcrumb templates.
- New feature: Added
bcn_show_post_private
filter.
- New feature: Added
bcn_show_type_term_archive
filter.
6.3.0
Release date: May, 3rd 2019
- New feature: Added Gutenberg block for displaying breadcrumb trails.
- New feature: Added
bcn_display_attribute_array
filter.
- New feature: Added
bcn-aria-current
template tag to facilitate WAI-ARIA Breadcrumb support.
- Bug Fix: Updated settings page to follow WP core standards for header structure.
- Bug Fix: Updated checkbox in adminKit to eliminate multiple labels to follow WCAG 2.0.
- Bug Fix: Fixed PHP error in circumstances of
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::fill()
falling back on treating an unknown item as a taxonomy.
6.2.1
Release date: October, 26th 2018
- Behavior change: Added
span
element wrapping the breadcrumb title in the default unlinked breadcrumb template.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue that caused PHP warnings and “the following settings were not saved” messages for hierarchical CPTs.
6.2.0
Release date: September, 24th 2018
- Behavior change: Cleaned up translations for default templates, simplifying and clarifying the translatable content.
- Behavior change: Default unlinked breadcrumb templates no longer contain Schema.org BreadcrumbList markup.
- Behavior change: Breadcrumb NavXT REST API endpoints are no longer enabled by default.
- New feature: Added
bcn_register_rest_endpoint
filter.
- New feature: Added
bcn_breadcrumb_assembled_json_ld_array
filter.
- New feature: Added support for following the post parent hierarchy first then falling back to a secondary hierarchy.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where on loading the settings page immediately after migrating settings causes PHP warnings on CPT and custom taxonomy settings.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue that caused the settings reset option under the help drop down to not work.
6.1.0
Release date: June, 1st 2018
- Behavior change: Links to generate support requests migrated to the WordPress.org forums.
- New feature: Added support for Schema.org BreadcrumbList (microdata format) in the included widget.
- New feature: Added new Root Page support for author archives.
- New feature: Added REST API endpoint for posts, terms, and author archives.
- Bug fix: Corrected label for the Schema.org BreadcrumbList (RDFa format) option in the included widget.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP warning would be thrown due to
get_term()
returning something other than an instance of WP_Term
.
6.0.4
Release date: January, 26th 2018
- Behavior change: Added auto migration of post type hierarchy settings to
bcn_display*()
functions.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP notice would be generated on the page for posts when the blog breadcrumb display option is set to false.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where a PHP notice would be generated on archive pages where attachments were included in the
wp_query
results.
6.0.3
Release date: January, 1st 2018
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where an improper breadcrumb would be generated in the trail for pages under some circumstances.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where the post and page roots were not updating to track user changes in Settings > Reading.
6.0.2
Release date: December, 30th 2017
- Behavior change: Added warning alerting that
bcn_breadcrumb::type
must be an array.
- Bug fix: Changed Breadcrumb Separator and Paged Template from an input field to a textbox to reduce confusion caused by HTML entities.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where the parents of a page may not show up in the breadcrumb trail.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where the
$reverse
parameter for bcn_display
and bcn_display_list
did not work properly.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where the
bcn_display_list
function did not include the li
elements.
6.0.1
Release date: December, 28th 2017
- Behavior change: Removed unused Blog Template and Blog Template (Unlinked) from settings page.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where changes to the hierarchy type for any post type would not save.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue where the blog display setting was ignored.
6.0.0
Release date: December, 26th 2017
- Behavior change:
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display_list()
deprecated in favor of using the $template
parameter in bcn_breadcrumb_trail::display()
.
- Behavior change:
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_attachment()
deprecated in favor of calling bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_post()
.
- Behavior change:
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_front_page()
deprecated in favor of calling bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_home()
.
- Behavior change:
bcn_li_attributes
filter was deprecated in favor of bcn_display_attributes
.
- Behavior change:
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_archive_by_date()
deprecated in favor of calling bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_day(),
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_month(), and/or
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::do_year()`.
- Behavior change:
bcn_breadcrumb_trail::find_type()
deprecated and removed from bcn_breadcrumb_trail.
- Behavior change: Breadcrumb for 404 error pages changed to be a child of the front page.
- New feature: Added support for various HTML tags in the widget's pretext field.
- New feature: Added
bcn_default_hierarchy_display
filter.
- New feature: Added
bcn_default_hierarchy_type
filter.
- New feature: Added
$posttype_name
as the third parameter to bcn_show_tax_private
.
- Bug fix: Fixed UI/UX issue in the settings screen where enabling/disabling settings groups for the Home, Blog, and Mainsite breadcrumb settings did not work.
- Bug fix: Fixed UI/UX issue in the settings screen where not including the paged breadcrumb still allowed the paged breadcrumb template to be edited.
- Bug fix: Removed use of
create_function
in registering the widget as it was deprecated in PHP 7.2.